A Beautiful Truth

I find myself immersed in a tranquil season regarding my relationship with God. I have been experiencing a refreshingly deep work in my life lately and I wish to share of a beautiful truth that He has been lavishing over me through it. I personally have a great appreciation for how the Word of God can stand for itself. Therefore, I simply wish to share a chapter from Psalms, preceded with a brief statement of it's context/significance to me in my current season:

Before I returned to Bible College from my Christmas break there was a conference at my home church in Prince George. At the final session I attended a wonderful lady prayed over me and read this scripture over me; its particularly significant because it's the first scripture I highlighted in my very first Bible, and one I had read almost every week growing up. Not fully sure why...I was just always drawn to it...(well I know why, but that's for me to know...). Anyways, this lady had no knowledge of this, and she marched right to me and declared this Psalm over me. The Spirit blew me away in that moment. Upon my return to college, in the very first chapel our President referenced to a main concept that is found within this Psalm. These "minor" connections to some often speak great volumes to me, and for this reason I have been continually moved by the beautiful truth that is found within Psalm 139 lately. I hope you take time to reflect upon the truth of its content. It reads,

"Oh Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.

You hem me in - behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, 'surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,' even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord, and abhor those who rise up against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."

Be blessed,
Nick B.